The New York Times article seemed pretty balanced to me. *shrug*.
PBS has great kids programs and very little commercial advertising. My little girl loves Dora the Explorer.
I can't comment on Bill Moyers' program as I don't watch it, but let's be careful about what we ask for. I for one appreciate having independent non-commercial quality kids programs.
That's odd. I thought the New York Times article dripped with liberal bias.
Anyways, welcome to Free Republic.
And you're entitled to this at taxpayer expense, why?
Yes, it's just great that my tax dollars are seized, at the barrel of a gun, so your child can watch dora the explorer.
PBS is a sham and a fraud. It's wonderful how we have to subsidize it, yet they and the producers get to rake in mechandising revenues from shows like barney, teletubbies, sesamee street and every other thing they can squeeze out of it.
NON-commercial? Every time I surf through PBS, I am inundated with "funds provided by" ADVERTISEMENTS (usually longer than the ads on regular broadcast TV) or interruptions BEGGING for "your support".
I have sent money to a local PBS station, during a pledge drive to "support" a show I really enjoyed.
After the drive was over, the show was on ONCE, one episode ONLY, at 2:30 in the morning, in the following two MONTHS!
I was DEFRAUDED by PBS to the tune of $200, and all I got was a mousepad and t-shirt.
PBS can kiss my hairy patoot. I only wish that there was a way that taxpayers could direct their tax dollars, rather than a slush fund for Congress to slop its pigs with.
Dora the Explorer is on NickJr.
Dora the Explorer has nothing to do with PBS. She is on Nikelodeon and CBS, which are Viacom stations. Dora is very much a commercial program.